Here’s our fantasy premier league best fixtures GW1 with a fixture ease schedule where we look at the teams with the best fixtures from an attacking players and a defensive players perspective for the first 6 gameweeks.
fantasy premier league best fixtures GW1 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players
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Introduction
Last season I used the official fantasy premier league fixture difficulty ranking as the base for my fixture ease articles. This schedule divided fixtures up into 4 categories without distinguishing between teams attacking and defensive capabilities.
So for example to give the same ranking for the Arsenal and Bournemouth attack and defence didn’t seem to work for me as they both had good attacks but poor defence.
So I’ve started working on my own fixture ease schedule based on my own calculations. Here’s a bit of background on methodology
Methodology
The idea is to have 2 fixture ease schedules. One will rank the teams by the ease of the opposition defences they face over the upcoming games. That will be called the attackers fixture ease schedule.
The 2nd will rank the teams by the ease of the attacking teams they face. This will be called the defenders fixture ease schedule.
I have done this by looking at the goals scored last season to rank attacking teams and goals conceded last season to rank defensive teams on a home and away basis. I’ve then applied a factor against the average goals home and away. I have adjusted some of the factors if a team over or under performed their expected goals by a considerable margin but that was only in a low number of cases. For the promoted teams I have tried to find a proxy team from 18/19 teams and used their data. You can see my article on the promoted teams if you’re interested in more information on their form in the Championship. I’ve also made subjective adjustments for transfer activity.
At the moment there are no “perception” adjustments. So for example Arsenal were terrible away last season defensively (ranked 15th in goals conceded away) and Man Utd were also pretty ordinary in goals conceded home and away ( ranked 10th home and away in goals conceded). I have not given them a discretionary positive “bump” for being a top 6 team. However I have made a subjective adjustment for their signings of Maguire and Wan Bissaka. I have a fixture graphic below which I’ve colour coded for difficulty. It is just to improve the visual aspect of the schedule and the factors I’ve talked about above, rather than the just the colours, are basis for calculation.
A fixture ease schedule for attacking players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the defences they face over the first 6 gameweeks. There’s player suggestions and last seasons PPM next to them
Best 6 teams
Liverpool
Salah Mid £12.5m, 6.8 points per match
Firmino Fwd £9.5m 4.7 PPM
Manchester City
Sterling Mid £12.0m 6.9 PPM
Bernardo Silva Mid £8.0m 4.3 ppm
D Silva Mid £7.5m 4.3 PPM
De Bruyne Mid £9.5m 3.1 PPM
Everton
Sigurdsson Mid £8.0m 4.8 PPM
Moise Kean Fwd £7.0m new player see article
Brighton
Trossard Mid £6.0m new player see article
Manchester United
Good fixtures after first 2
Martial Mid £7.5m PPM 4.5
Rashford Fwd £8.5m PPM 3.9
James Mid £6.0m new player see article
West Ham
Good fixtures after GW1
Haller Fwd £7.5m new player see article
Felipe Anderson Mid £7.0m PPM 4.3
Lanzini Mid £6.5m PPM 3.1
Defensive players fixture ease schedule
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the attacking teams they face over the first 6 gameweeks. There’s player suggestions and last seasons PPM next to them
Everton
Digne Def £6.0m PPM 4.5
C Palace
Dann Def £4.5m PPM 2.3
Van Aanholt Def £5.5m PPM 3.9
Guaita GK £5.0M PPM 4.0
Liverpool
Alisson GK £6.0m PPM 4.6
Alexander Arnold Def £7.0m PPM 6.4
Robertson Def £7.0m PPM 5.9
Van Dijk Def £6.5m PPM 5.5
Bournemouth
Ake Def £5.0m PPM 3.2
A Smith Def £4.5m PPM 2.8
Burnley
Pope GK £4.5m (didn’t play last season)
Lowton Def £4.5m PPM 1.6
Brighton
Ryan GK £4.5m PPM 3.1
Duffy Def £5.0m PPM 3.3
Dunk £4.5m PPM 2.5
Montoya £4.5m 1.8
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